Drawing
upon the thinking and analyses of renowned intellectuals, this
documentary sketches a portrait of neo-liberal ideology and examines the
various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world.

Neo-liberalism’s
one-size-fits-all dogmas are well known: deregulation, reducing the
role of the State, privatization, limiting inflation rather than
unemployment, etc. In other words, depoliticizing the economy and
putting it into the hands of the financial class. And these dogmas are
gradually settling into our consciousness because they’re being
broadcast across a vast and pervasive network of propaganda.

In fact, beginning with the founding in 1947 of the Mont Pèlerin
Society, neo-liberal think tanks financed by multinational companies and
big money have propagated neo-liberal ideas in universities, in the
media, and in governments.

This ideology, convinced of its
historical and scientific validity – as proven, in particular, by the
fall of the Soviet Union – has intoxicated all governments, left and
right alike. In fact, since the end of the Cold War, the rate of
neo-liberal reforms has increased dramatically. Often imposed with
force, either through the structural adjustment plans of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, under the pressure
of financial markets and multinationals, or even by outright war, the
neo-liberal doctrine has now reached every corner of the planet.

But behind the ideological smokescreen, behind the neat concepts of natural order and the harmony of interests in a free market, beyond the panacea of the "invisible hand," what is really going on?

"How the Media Frames Political Issues" by Scott London

In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]

McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15]http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html